Normally, when you store data in an XML file, you need to be careful about encoding it in a way that's safe and won't confuse the XML parser. The special XML markup characters need to be translated into entities, which can be cumbersome if you're writing the XML yourself in a text editor. To avoid this, you can use the CDATA section to store the data directly without having to worry about encoding. This article will tell you about XML CDATA sections and show you how to use them when you need to ship marked-up data along with your XML file.

IBM® DB2® pureXML® allows you to store XML data natively in a relational database management system, giving you the power and flexibility to report on this data without disturbing the advantages that its XML format offers. In this tutorial, you will learn how to connect to a DB2 database from the Python programming language, importing data about population from the United States Census Bureau. You will use Python to convert this CSV file into XML, before inserting this XML data natively into DB2. Finally, you will use Python to create a command-line application that produces some informative tables that you can access through a menu system.

The popular jQuery JavaScript library is best known for its use working with HTML, but you can also use it to process XML, if you're careful and aware of the pitfalls. This article shows how to use jQuery to process the Atom Web feed format. Web feed XML is perhaps the most pervasive XML format around, and the main fulfillment of the promise of XML on the Web. But most such formats use XML namespaces, which cause issues with many popular JavaScript libraries, including jQuery.

Java™ developers have a variety of choices when it comes to serializing and deserializing Extensible Markup Language (XML) objects. Simple is one such example, and it offers a number of advantages over its competitors. Explore an introductory overview of how to use Simple within an XML communication system in this article.

A frequent goal of schema authors is to build schemas for extensibility, where wildcards play a key role in providing extensibility points. New wildcard features introduced in XML Schema 1.1 make it easier for schema authors to write extensible schemas that can tolerate changes in the future. In this third of a six part series of articles, authors Neil Delima, Sandy Gao, Michael Glavassevich, and Khaled Noaman take an in depth look at versioning features introduced by XML Schema 1.1, specifically the new powerful wildcard mechanisms and open content.

PHP developers commonly require the services of an Extensible Markup Language (XML) parser in their code. Along these lines, they frequently find it necessary to validate XML input. Fortunately, you can easily accomplish this in PHP. This article shows you how to validate XML documents within PHP and determine the cause of validation failures.

SAML is an XML-based standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains. The single most important problem that SAML was created to solve is the Web browser Single Sign-On problem. Many organizations are debating whether to stay with version 1.1 or move to 2.0. This article makes observations about both options.

Want to increase productivity when managing tasks of developing Ajax applications? Regular developerWorks author Judith Myerson covers how you can use common Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) workspace as a way to collaborate with team members, make or get workspace templates, allocate workspace dynamically, centralize communications for better administration, and make or get Ajax libraries. She shows you how to mitigate project risks to more acceptable levels and how to set up a pilot study on the workspace to test the application before integrating it into legacy enterprise systems.

Zorba is an open-source, robust, and standards-compliant XQuery processor. The Zorba extension in PHP provides an API to Zorba functions from within PHP, and thereby allows developers to add sophisticated XQuery processing to their PHP/XML applications. Examine the Zorba PHP API in detail, and how to use it for a variety of purposes.

Within the Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) community, Spring is becoming a widely accepted framework. One new feature in the latest release of Spring is its Object/XML (O/X) mapping support. The API enables developers to convert Java objects into XML and vice versa. In this article, learn to use the Object/XML mapping in Spring and explore its advantages.